Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao . |
| 2 | In describing a future coalition government he promised that ‘ we will not give representatives of the other side just two or three armchairs ’ . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON 'S dismal season plumbed new depths on Saturday when they were thrashed 83–6 by a Blaydon side just two divisions above them in the Courage League . |
| 4 | Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time . |
| 5 | It took the fire brigade just three minutes to arrive at Douglas Reyburn when a twisting frame burst into flames in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | Robert Stewart , 28 , of Skipton Green , Low Fell , Gateshead had denied the charge at Newcastle Crown Court , saying he had bought the car just three weeks before being stopped by police and the 351 squares of the drug hidden in fog lamp covers must have been left there by the previous owner . |
| 7 | DEBT-ridden Coalite fuel group Anglo United is on the brink of collapse just six months after wresting a refinancing agreement from its bankers . |
| 8 | As a result just one Bq of Caesium-137 , contained in one litre of milk , will undergo a tiny explosion every second ; 60 explosions every minute , 3,600 explosions every hour or a total of three to seven million tiny atomic explosions in its stay in our bodies — any one of which can cause cell mutations which eventually lead to cancer or genetic damage . |
| 9 | They clinched the deal for the Norwich defender just six minutes before the deadline . |
| 10 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 11 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 12 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 13 | Elizabeth , of Taunton , Somerset , was working as an advertising executive in Durban and had announced her engagement just three days before her death . |
| 14 | Mansell also breached a race rule just 15 laps in , had a puncture , clipped a barrier wall and left a streak of burning rubber when he roared out of the pits on cold tyres . |
| 15 | Both Paschero and Masi think that disorders in the spiritual sphere underlie all chronic conditions , but while Orthega argues that several different remedies may have to be used before the patient can be cured , treating each layer as it presents rather like peeling an onion , both Paschero and Masi advocate just one remedy for each patient and consider that the patient does not change the chronic remedy at all throughout life . |
| 16 | It was never a classic encounter , but Colchester 's greater motivation kept them running hard and reaching half-time just one goal behind was a huge bonus . |
| 17 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 18 | Football , and speculation is mounting that Oxford United 's new manager could soon be leaving the club just six weeks after he was appointed . |
| 19 | Maidstone chairman John Waugh , who bought the club just three weeks ago , said : ‘ I feel desperate for the people that have worked so hard for the club . |
| 20 | Professor Jim Jeffery , who has attempted over many years to disentangle the truth from the official statistics about the AGR series , estimates that the cost overrun on building just four of the stations ( Dungeness B , Hinkley Point B , Hartlepool and Heysham 1 ) amounts to over £6.5 billion ( at 1988 prices ) . |
| 21 | But the company which took his money just two months ago has now closed down . |
| 22 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 23 | Players will argue that with six men spread across the field just ten metres from the catcher , there is little scope for the counter . |
| 24 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 25 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 26 | John Spearman , Classic FM chief executive , said : ‘ We are very pleased to have been presented with this prestigious award just six months after going on air . |
| 27 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 28 | Under the preferred Southern route just 234 would be within 200 metres of the new line and none nearer than 50 metres . |
| 29 | The father-of-three told his wife , Sandra , to run for it and bravely fought the teenage louts , who had confronted them in woodland just 50 yards from their home . |
| 30 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |